Are a Group-Centric Public and an Ideological Public One and the Same? Evidence from Survey Experiments

• In Event: Symbols and Substance

Brief Overview

Many contend that the mass public is group-centric, lacking ideological beliefs. Yet group-centrism need not be ideologically vapid. I test whether the public's group-centric attitudes depend upon an ideological approach to politics.

Author

• Eric Robert Schmidt, Indiana University-Bloomington